I run a list of positive future books over at www.oetearmann.com/positive-boo..., and I'm always adding to it. If you haven't seen a lot of futures you want to live in lately, this can help.

New Year, New Future! Let's work on a list of media showing futures we want to live in. What have you read/watched/listened to/played recently that showcases a healing future? Fiction or nonfiction. Add it to the list! #solarpunk #wecandobetter #sustainable #future #circularsky #booksky

If you're trying to orient how to engage in change work in 2026, this episode of my BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES podcast might help: brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-37-tria...

Last day to get your free copy of my solarpunk piece, The Doglady and the Rainstorm, set in a near-future version of Rio. It's about eco-anxiety and caring for the vulnerable. A Merger in Corn Country, by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social, is also free!

If you’re in Pittsburgh, my friend Rebecca is having her first art show at the Bantha Tea Bar tonight! Come check it out!

this is BEAUTIFUL and REAL www.tiktok.com/t/ZThJeSAps/

If you're trying to orient how to engage in change work in 2026, this episode of my BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES podcast might help: brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-37-tria...

Seems crazy, but in 2026, I want to work during the week and play on the weekends.

Last Day to grab these two #solarpunk stories free! newsletter.susankayequinn.com/s1a1g1y9n2/2... @renanbernardo.com @daniellearostegui.bsky.social #booksky

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Every year, I vow to read more...this year, I'm *allowing* myself to consume every form of human-made art, giving my curiosity full rein. This approach, no matter the result, is the "life of the mind" I truly want. This year, I let myself have it.

This is how you do it

It's funny but resilience is absolutely what we have and what they don't they can barely stand any change at all they lose their damn minds at the slightest no the smallest resistance meanwhile we've already adapted and have an endless supply of FUCK YOU, MAKE ME in reserves

Oh shit... I knew I was wildly put off by this (just the trailer) but I had no idea... Gee, a hell made by men blamed on a woman once again, shocking In an era of fascism and climate change, a whole lot of media is failing us.

Take care of your health in 2026, friends! I want all of us to outlive this MFer.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Kiddo is teaching me and their sibling how to darn our socks! Very exciting. (Orange for support)

A moment of winter beauty for the first day of 2026.

If you're looking for some hopeful stories to read in 2026, I've got some free #SF novels & short stories for you to check out... susankayequinn.com/free-books-2 a #solarpunk short storie a #hopepunk #scifi novel some YA SF, some fantasy #steampunk even my gritty #cyberpunk serial...

UGH this is horrible. And it's a reminder to me that I need to finish pulling all my posts off FB and over to my personal blog (that I want to save; I've been not posting on FB since Jan 20, 2025, but still have an acct).

THIS is the future progressives want.

Happy New Year!

2026 is the Year Authenticity Wins Not just by grabbing AI by the throat and throwing it into the sea. But also fascists. And billionaires. Basically doubling down on all the human things and yeeting the inhuman ones into the sun.

Looking forward to when we stop burning things altogether.

I've been saying for a while that platforms want AI content labeled so they can filter it out in training data, so this still tracks with that. I do think that there is something interesting in the idea of making something deliberately imperfect as a human signature.

Kiddo puts a fireplace fire video on the TV as a screensaver...and it's surprising how having a "fire" NOT in the fireplace makes it suddenly lose all its cozy value. (I'm very anti-burning anything anymore because of carbon but I was open to the fake kind...but no)

It's funny but resilience is absolutely what we have and what they don't they can barely stand any change at all they lose their damn minds at the slightest no the smallest resistance meanwhile we've already adapted and have an endless supply of FUCK YOU, MAKE ME in reserves

"Between the administration and the opposition are actual opposites of principle: among those committed to inclusion and those to exclusion; truth and lies; kindness and cruelty; the protection and destruction of systems that in turn protect the climate or public health."

WWJD? I'm pretty sure NOT scare preschool teachers, you creeps! Just stop it!

At midnight, 20 million Americans will see their healthcare costs skyrocket because Republicans refused to extend tax credits that help working people afford care. Trump promised he’d lower prices on day 1, but this & his tariff tax have done the opposite. A terrible way to start 2026.

Republicans will never waste an opportunity to dismantle more of the social safety net.

These people are nothing but bullies and love terrorizing, get off on the power, and they need to go to jail.

I said it four hours ago, and I’ll say it again: bsky.app/profile/katm...

If you're looking for some hopeful stories to read in 2026, I've got some free #SF novels & short stories for you to check out... susankayequinn.com/free-books-2 a #solarpunk short storie a #hopepunk #scifi novel some YA SF, some fantasy #steampunk even my gritty #cyberpunk serial...

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

GODDAMN IT (NASA Library)"that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals—many of them not digitized or available anywhere else. Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said... some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away."

"AI is unethical the way billionaires are unethical, and exists for much the same reason and with many of the same risks, because the one is inextricable from the other: a culmination of wildly unregulated capitalist excess..."👏 @fozmeadows.bsky.social fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai

Congrats to the like, eight people who bought their tenth yacht while running millions of us out of jobs

That sounds like a great theme for the coming year: to visit X number of indie bookstores in your city each month.

all this talk of #literacy as #resistance is making me want to go back and finish visiting all the indie bookstores on that Pittsburgh Book Crawl (which had its own passport/stamp system!)

Trump's attempting to transform the US from a country that welcomes immigrants into a radically xenophobic nation that demonizes immigrants of color, and even their US born children. But Trump didn't campaign on this destructive/reactionary remaking of America and most Americans don't support it. 1/

"About 19% of Americans say they use other library services — such as programs and events for children or adults, accessing computers, or just spending time there — at least once a month." This is excellent news! #library

7/ Check out the full post for way more data on Americans' reading habits! For example, not a lot of Americans read e-books — but those who DO are disproportionately likely to be heavy readers. More like that here! Give it a subscribe:

5/ So let's talk about that minority of heavy readers. We know how many books Americans said they read in 2025 — which lets us calculate a distribution. And it turns out we've got some substantial Reading Inequality. (Three cheers for the Power Law!)

It shall ever remain a mystery why this is the 2nd most popular article of 2025 at McSweeney's:

Reading has dropped over the last two decades: TRUE ALSO TRUE: "Last year in the US, sales of physical books rose slightly after two years of declines." I think we're already seeing the reaction. Things are changing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

"the most humiliating display of literate obliviousness in the face of the total collapse of meaning...was Ezra Klein’s bizarre eulogy to Charlie Kirk. The now-infamous column ('Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way') can best be understood as an expression of class solidarity."

2025 Fascists in a nutshell: "It’s not simply that they have broken the laws. They have acted as if the laws, and the Constitution that underpins them, don’t exist." @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-3...

I should probably mention that the first and second books in my #hopepunk climate fiction series are free! A power grid mystery for fans of Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson) and Monk & Robot (Chambers). susankayequinn.com/series/nothi... #solarpunk #climatechange